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The house is in Liverpool's Georgian Quarter and still contains the studio

A huge collection of late photographer Edward Chambre Hardman images will go on public display for the first time, thanks to a £25,000 grant.

The archive of 140,000 images that span five decades were left in the acclaimed photographer's Liverpool home - Hardman's House - when he died in 1988.

The National Trust took on the home in 2003 and the images have been in storage since.

The home, now a tourist attraction, aims to exhibit the pictures in 2021.

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The images will be digitalised

The collection includes the photographer's prints and negatives, dating from the 1920s to 1970s, that show portraits of celebrities and iconic shots of post-war Liverpool.

It will provide an "exciting insight" into the work and personal life of the portrait and landscape photographer as well as a "fascinating social history of the mid-20th Century", Brian Pilkington, of the National Trust, said.

The funding has come from the National Archives and The Pilgrim Trust as part of their Archives Revealed programme.

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The collection has been in storage

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Hardman House is a National Trust site